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Tweet added to Oxford English Dictionary

18 June, 2013

A little birdy told us. "Tweet" will be one of the new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary as part of its June 2013 update, breaking one of the rules of the Dictionary in the ...

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Twitter launching music app

12 April, 2013

Who doesn't love listening to #music? Twitter’s newest venture, which is set to take in the world of music, will go live later today according to a report from AllThingsD. The Twitter music ...

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Twitter celebrates another birthday in style

21 March, 2013

Celebrating #Twitter7. Seven years ago today, a small team managed to broadcast what they had been working on to the world. The first published tweet was sent by Jack Dorsey and said, “Just ...

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Big Brother is Watching You...on Facebook

11 February, 2013

RIOT knows what you did next summer. Multinational security company Raytheon has developed software that mines personal data from social networks in order to monitor or predict the movements of an ...

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Twitter Soars to Half a Billion Users

31 January, 2013

Twitter? I hardly know 'er! Twitter may have just hit half a billion members according to new research revealed this week. A study from GlobalWebIndex shows Twitter’s member base reached 485 ...

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Hashtag crowned Word of the Year

7 January, 2013

#Winning! “Hashtag” has been given the prestigious title of the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year, beating the likes of Gangnam Style and YOLO. Members of the society ...

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Twitter launches its Year in Review service

14 December, 2012

What has the world been tweeting about in 2012? Google’s visual look back at 2012 was an interesting tale that mixed the triumphant with the tragic, but could you condense the events of the ...

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Twitter update adds own photo filters

12 December, 2012

Take that Instagram! Photo filters have been added to Twitter’s iPhone and Android apps thanks to a partnership with Aviary. Eight filters are offered with previews available to showcase how ...

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Little baby Hashtag welcomed into world

28 November, 2012

Unlikely to make the list of most popular names. One particular feature of Twitter is set to be the pride and joy of one couple for years to come after they named their daughter Hashtag. Strangely, ...

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Saudi fury over Paris Hilton Mecca shop

20 November, 2012

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has sparked fury in the Middle East by opening a bag and accessories shop in the Saudi Arabian Holy city of Mecca. Saudis took to Twitter to say Hilton (31) — who ...

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Love/Hate nets huge following

19 November, 2012

RTE smash hit crime drama Love/Hate is proving a big success on the TV and online. The show’s Twitter page, set up just two days ago, already has more than 4,000 fans. More than 630,000 ...

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One Direction fans Swift to hate Harry Styles babe

19 November, 2012

Sexy singer Taylor Swift has been branded a “paedo” for dating Harry Styles in a torrent of abuse from crazed One Direction fans. The 22-year-old beauty has been hounded with death ...

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Graham Nort happy about Twit

14 November, 2012

Graham Norton has denied a claim on Twitter that he once asked British Prime Minister David Cameron a rude question about his sex life. The claim was made by a tweeter called ...

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One Direction to play special gig in White House

11 November, 2012

Pop sensations One Direction are heading to the White House... to play a special gig for President Obama’s daughters. Barack and First Lady Michelle extended the invite as a special ...

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Hacked Twitter accounts spark password resets

8 November, 2012

For once those e-mails may actually be real. Twitter is e-mailing users, who may have had their accounts compromised, asking them to change their passwords. The e-mail is not part of a phishing ...

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Tallafornia lads` fury at ugly jibes

8 November, 2012

Tallafornia’s male stars have blasted Geordie Shore reality TV rival Charlotte Crosby, calling her a “dog” and a “spudhead” after she claimed they were ugly in an ...